- April 28, 2009
- Is This Book Worth Getting?
A roundup of new Brooklyn-centered novels.
- May 4, 2009
- A Nonfiction Marriage
After the massage parlors, after the affair, after the scandalous book that nearly broke up his family, Gay Talese is writing a new opus�about his relationship with his wife.
- April 22, 2009
- Notes on a Scandalous Novel
Wallowing in Charlotte Roche’s bodily-fluid-obsessed Wetlands.
- March 23, 2009
- The Homeless Life and Times of Cadillac Man
Northern Queens’s most famous homeless person was making his thrice-weekly commute between his two homes.
- March 9, 2009
- Graphic Imagination
Alex Robinson is a classic New York funny-book fan.
- March 9, 2009
- The Canon
Top comic-book minds pick New York’s finest.
- March 9, 2009
- A Land of Geeks and Goblins
New York swarms with graphic artists, comic-book stores, and fictional fighters defending the universe�or conspiring to destroy it�from their Manhattan HQ. Below, some notable locations.
- March 9, 2009
- Subway Stories
John Wray makes literary failure look like fun. Let’s see what he can do with success.
- February 16, 2009
- Mob Tied: Josh Bazell
Josh Bazell started writing his debut novel, Beat the Reaper, while studying medicine at Columbia.
- February 9, 2009
- Updike on Updike and Obama
When New York spoke to John Updike in October, America was beginning to fathom the depths of its financial woes.